By Sharman Yarnell for Curtains Up I remember a few years ago when the movie ‘Sherlock Holmes’ with Robert Downey Jr. in the lead previewed at the AMC. There was a record attendance. In fact, people were turned away at the door. Fisti-cuffs almost broke out in the lobby of the AMC. The Sherlock Holmes […]
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Chef Michael’s Quick, Easy and Delish Dish for the Weekend
By Chef Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up www.globalgourmets.ca Vietnamese Caramel Shrimp (Tom Rim) As you may have gathered from some of my previous recipes I have succumbed completely to the cuisines of South East Asia. On my visits to these countries I have been blown away by the freshness of the ingredients, the wonderful bold […]
Curtains Up on Ray Harryhausen
By Joseph Rossi Another hero has passed away. Effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen is gone. He leaves behind an unmatched legacy of stop motion classics like Jason and the Argonauts and Mighty Joe Young. His influence can be seen in the works of Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Del Toro and many others.
FRINGE FESTIVAL 2013
I must admit, I’m behind the eight ball on Montreal’s Fringe Festival. Before Monday’s media call at Les Katacombes bar, I had heard of the Festival, but I didn’t really know what it was all about, having spent most of the past 20 summers or so in the Laurentians. Knowing what I know now, I […]
Centaur is ‘Busing Out All Over’ with The Number 14
By Sharman Yarnell Photos by Andy Gryn We’ve all done it: Sat on a bus or metro, or on a bench in a park and marvelled at some of the oddities that pass by – some scruffy, some snobby and pristine, others youthful and noisy or elderly and even noisier. One thing for certain is, […]
Thinking of YU
By Sharman Yarnell for Curtains Up Have you ever left a play unable to stop thinking about the production, the subject matter and the acting? Originally written in french by Carole Frechette and translated into english by John Murrell (beautifully translated), ‘Thinking of YU’ is playing in the small theatre at Centaur. I attended a […]
Scooch over, AC/DC! Hard-rockers Airbourne are new thunder from Down Under
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up! @bugsburnett True story: I was chasing a bat in my Montreal apartment the very night that Australia’s legendary hard-rocking boogie band Airbourne was headlining Le National back in 2008. I missed that show, but the next time Airbourne came to town – opening for the nastiest, skankiest rock’n’roll sideshow […]
Chef Michael’s Quick, Easy and Delish Dish for the Weekend
By Chef Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up www.globalgourmets.ca Burmese Chicken Curry with Yellow Lentils (Kalapei Kyetharhin) This mysterious country, once known as Burma, has been hidden for decades behind an almost impenetrable wall of secrecy and is only now just opening its doors to the outside world. It looks like a tremendously beautiful country that […]
Curtains Up on Iron Man 3
by Joseph Rossi To be honest, I never cared about Iron Man. Comics and movies — never cared. I thought the first movie was an okay attempt to please comic book and action junkies. It brought back to life the career of Robert Downey Jr. and gave him a perfect excuse to use his usual […]
My Way: An Autobiography by Paul Anka with David Dalton (St. Martin’s Press, $34.50)
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! The year was 1988. I was a young student in my first semester at Dawson College taking a course in documentary film taught by David Grey. I wrote a paper on the NFB film Lonely Boy. The paper gets me a grade of 82%. In 1995 I am […]